Is ANGELIQ® Right for Me?
Focus on you.
Menopausal symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats can have a disruptive effect on your life.
Hot flashes can occur at any time (usually an inconvenient one) during the day, while night sweats can wake you up, disturb your sleep patterns and deprive you of a good night’s sleep. This can leave you feeling tired and irritable during the day. Left untreated, hot flashes and night sweats can lead to poor sleep quality and a reduced sense of self.
Hormone therapy (HT) with ANGELIQ tablets (drospirenone/estradiol) can help bring back the balance. The good news is that you have options to treat these symptoms and reduce their effect on your life, health and daily routine. ANGELIQ may help provide rapid relief from your moderate to severe menopausal symptoms.
If you answer “yes” to two or more of the following questions, you may want to ask your healthcare professional if ANGELIQ is right for you:
- Are you going through natural menopause?
- Are you experiencing hot flashes?
- Do you suffer from night sweats (hot flashes that interrupt your sleep)?
- Have you noticed unusual vaginal dryness, itching, burning or discomfort during sex?
- Are you considering taking or currently using a combination (estrogen with progestin) therapy?
- Would you consider a once-a-day pill to help manage your symptoms?
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What important information should you know about ANGELIQ® tablets (drospirenone / estradiol) 0.5mg / 1mg?
ANGELIQ contains a different kind of hormone, drsp®, which may increase potassium. Therefore you should not take ANGELIQ if you have kidney, liver, or adrenal disease. Be sure to talk to your doctor about taking ANGELIQ if you regularly take other medications that can increase your potassium levels. These can include: NSAIDs-ibuprofen (Motrin®, Advil®), naproxen (Naprosyn®, Aleve®, and others) when taken long-term and daily for arthritis or other diseases or conditions, potassium-sparing diuretics (spironolactone and others), potassium supplementation, ACE inhibitors (Capoten®, Vasotec®, Zestril®, and others), angiotensin-II receptor antagonists (Cozaar®, Diovan®, Avapro®, and others), and heparin.
Do not use estrogens with or without progestins to prevent heart disease, heart attack or strokes.
Using estrogens with or without progestins may increase your chances of getting heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer and blood clots.
The most commonly reported side effects are irregular vaginal bleeding, breast pain and headaches.
Do not use ANGELIQ if you have had your uterus removed (hysterectomy), have unusual vaginal bleeding, have or have had a stroke or heart attack in the past year, currently have or have had blood clots, liver problems, or are allergic to ANGELIQ or any of its ingredients.
Estrogens with or without progestins should be used at the lowest effective doses and only for as long as menopausal symptoms persist. You and your healthcare provider should talk regularly about whether or not you still require treatment with ANGELIQ.
Motrin is the registered trademark of Johnson & Johnson Company; Advil is the registered trademark of Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, Inc.; Aleve is the registered trademark of Bayer HealthCare LLC; Naprosyn is the registered trademark of Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.; Capoten is the registered trademark of Par Pharmaceutical, Inc.; Vasotec is the registered trademark of Merck & Company, Inc.; Zestril is the registered trademark of AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical LP; Diovan is the registered trademark of Novartis Corporation; Avapro is the registered trademark of Sanofi-Aventis US, LP; Cozaar is the registered trademark of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.